AutoEater

AutoEater is a lightweight client-side Fabric mod that automatically manages eating for you, so you can focus on mining, building, PvP, or exploring without constantly watching your hunger bar.

No more dying to starvation while AFK mining or forgetting to eat during long sessions.

Features

Core Features

Automatically eats when hunger drops below a configurable threshold
Configurable target hunger level
Saturation-based trigger support (eat before hunger visually drops)
Adjustable cooldown between eating actions
Limit maximum food items consumed per activation
Hotbar-only mode or full inventory support

Smart Food Handling

Best food first mode
Worst food first mode (save valuable food, consume weaker food first)
Custom food priority lists
Optional harmful food filtering
- Rotten Flesh
- Spider Eye
- Poisonous Potato
- Pufferfish

Combat & Safety Features

Combat safety mode
- Aborts eating when taking damage
- Aborts eating when attacking
- Automatically pauses for 3 seconds after combat activity
Emergency Golden Apple mode
- Automatically eats Golden Apples below a configurable health threshold

Inventory Handling

Choose how food is placed before eating:

Empty hotbar slot
Replace currently held item
Offhand

Quality of Life

Optional HUD overlay
Fully configurable in-game
JSON config support (autoeat.json)
Lightweight and fully client-side
Works on any server

Commands

All commands support tab auto-completion and also work with the .autoeat prefix on servers.

Command	Description
`/autoeat`	Show current status and settings
`/autoeat threshold <1-20>`	Hunger level that triggers eating
`/autoeat target <1-20>`	Hunger level to eat up to
`/autoeat saturation <float>`	Eat when saturation drops below this (`0.0` disables)
`/autoeat cooldown <ticks>`	Delay between eating items
`/autoeat maxeats <1-100>`	Maximum food items eaten per activation
`/autoeat food [best\|worst\|custom]`	Food selection priority
`/autoeat place [empty\|held\|offhand]`	Food placement behavior
`/autoeat add <item_id>`	Add item to custom priority list
`/autoeat clear`	Clear custom priority list
`/autoeat gapple <float>`	Health threshold for emergency Golden Apple use
`/autoeat combat <true\|false>`	Toggle combat safety mode
`/autoeat harmful <true\|false>`	Allow or block harmful foods
`/autoeat hotbaronly <true\|false>`	Restrict usage to hotbar only
`/autoeat hud <true\|false>`	Toggle HUD overlay
`/autoeat debug <true\|false>`	Enable console debug logging

Requirements

Minecraft 1.21+
Fabric Loader 0.15.0+
Fabric API
Java 21+

Installation

Install Fabric Loader
Install Fabric API
Place AutoEater into your mods folder
Launch Minecraft

Notes

Client-side only
Safe to use on vanilla and modded servers
No server installation required